An investigation by El Universal (flagged by Business Insider) found that Sinaloa (believed to supply 80 percent of Chicago’s street drugs) has been working with U.S. authorities since 2000 to provide information in return for immunity and undisturbed drug trafficking. Court documents obtained by El Universal show testimony from DEA and DOJ officials affirming the relationship.

I'm thinking it's at least somewhat likely then that HSBC was laundering money for the cartels at the behest -or at least with the knowledge of- our DOJ, which was also supplying arms to cartels.

An investigation by El Universal (flagged by Business Insider) found that Sinaloa (believed to supply 80 percent of Chicago’s street drugs) has been working with U.S. authorities since 2000 to provide information in return for immunity and undisturbed drug trafficking. Court documents obtained by El Universal show testimony from DEA and DOJ officials affirming the relationship.

I'm thinking it's at least somewhat likely then that HSBC was laundering money for the cartels at the behest -or at least with the knowledge of- our DOJ, which was also supplying arms to cartels.

Fast and Furious?Seems that if true, the placement of a few traffic cones on the GWB would pale in comparision.

One of the comments at the bottom of the article laid things out pretty nicely:

A VERY BRIEF HISTORY:

* Shortly after World War II, the OSS (the predecessor of the CIA) formed a strategic alliance with the Sicilian and Corsican mafia.

* During the 1950s, In order to provide covert funds to forces loyal to General Chiang Kai-Shek (they were fighting the Chinese communists under Mao Zedong), the CIA helped the Kuomintang (KMT) smuggle opium to Thailand from China and Burma. They even provided planes owned by one of their front businesses—Air America.

* During the long years of the cold war, the CIA mounted major covert guerilla operations along the Soviet-Chinese border. In 1950, for their operation against communist China in northeastern Burma, and from 1965 to 1975 [during the Vietnam war] for their operation in northern Laos, the CIA recruited, as allies, people we now refer to as drug lords.

* Throughout the 1980s, in Afghanistan, the CIA supported the Mujahedin rebels (in their efforts against the pro-Soviet government) by facilitating their opium smuggling operations. A small local trade in opium was turned into a major source of supply for the world's markets, including the United States. Thus Afghanistan become the largest supplier of illicit opium on the planet—a status only briefly interrupted when it was under Taliban control.

* Again during the 1980s, the Reagan administration, using cocaine smuggling operations, funded a guerrilla force known as the Nicaraguan Contras—even after such funding was outlawed by Congress. An August 1996 series in the San Jose Mercury News by Pulitzer Prize­-winner Gary Webb clearly linked the origins of crack cocaine in California to the CIA and the Contras.

Follow this link to an electronic briefing book compiled from declassified documents obtained by the National Security Archive. It includes the notebooks kept by NSC aide and Iran-Contra figure Oliver North, electronic mail messages written by high-ranking Reagan administration officials, memos detailing the contra war effort and FBI and DEA reports. The documents demonstrate official knowledge of drug operations, and also collaboration with, and protection of, known drug traffickers. Court and hearing transcripts are also included.

* In November 1996, a Miami grand jury indicted former Venezuelan anti-narcotics chief, and longtime-CIA asset, General Ramon Guillen Davila. He had been smuggling many tons of cocaine into the United States from a CIA owned Venezuelan warehouse. During his trial, Guillen claimed that all of his drug smuggling operations were approved by the CIA.

* The Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS), a Mexican intelligence agency (spawned in 1947) was practically a creation of the CIA. DFS badges were handed out to top-level Mexican drug traffickers—thus giving them a virtual 'License to Traffic'. The Guadalajara Cartel (Mexico's most powerful drug-trafficking network in the early 1980s) prospered largely because it enjoyed the protection of the DFS, under its chief Miguel Nazar Haro, also a CIA asset.

For far more detailed information kindly google any of the following:

* The Big White Lie: The CIA and the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic by former DEA agent Michael Levine

If this is true, it would make Fast & Furious look like a science fair project.

Law enforcement - at all levels - allow a certain amount of criminal activity to take place in exchange for information on other, bigger fish. And I'm okay with that, conceptually; I'd rather the street pusher be given some slack if he ultimately lets me get the guy who's supplying him with his product. But law enforcement is not supposed to be complicit with those bigger fish. That defeats the purpose.

If they were given immunity why was the son of the cartel leader on trial? I can't read Spanish so can't read the article on El Universal.

With that said, the title of this thread should be changed to "US allegedly allows cartel to smuggle billions worth of drugs". Hopefully, someone will pick up this story in the US and examine what evidence El Universal has.

ExPatriatePen wrote:I'm talking about the relative amount of media coverage of each event.

I'm going to want a bit more information about this allegation before I lose my head over the media coverage. But one thing that I think the El Universal story has in its favor is that they only cite sources who were willing to be identified on the record. That's either incredibly brave, or a front for false flag.

At what point does ******** about media coverage on a hockey site change the news into an objective reporting source? Maybe up your complaints from every other post to 2 out of 3. Thats an a-hole way to put it, but we get it, really. Its a valid problem, but it isnt a backstop to counter every political event that wads up your pantes.